Nominee for U.N. ambassador under investigation

Congressional investigators are probing a new allegation that President Bush's choice for United Nations ambassador once visited CIA headquarters to demand the removal of a top intelligence analyst who disagreed with him on Cuba's biological warfare capabilities.

Current and former senior U.S. intelligence officials denounced the alleged visit by Under Secretary of State John Bolton. They said it risked undermining the objectivity of intelligence judgments by sending a message that analysts who do not tell policy-makers what they want to hear would be punished.

The impartiality of U.S. intelligence judgments remains a highly charged issue because of assertions by some lawmakers that analysts were pressured to produce assessments on Iraq that supported Bush's case for war but turned out to be wrong. Several top-level inquiries have rejected those claims of political pressure.

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then Bolton is (thankfully) toast.

And the NeoCon handlers of the CHIMPANZEE.

The analyst, who was the Latin America expert on the National Intelligence Council, cannot be identified because he is now is in an undercover position.

At least until Robert Novak's next column....

... administration would avoid even the APPEARANCE of impropriety or unethical behavior.

I guess he thought they'd be able to cover things up better. that way, nothing would "appear" unethical.

by te criminals of BushInc. Of course, this will probably bring on another purge, but, I doubt they'll keep quiet over that, either.

a-boltin'?

Surely there's a place somewhere for Bolton to do his famous brand of damage to the world.

he'd certainly make rumsfeld the pope, or maybe kissinger, or james baker. You know, someone uncontroversial. :sarcasm:

:kick:

<snip> Chaired by the Republican senator Richard Lugar, the Foreign Relations Committee will begin three days of hearings into Mr Bolton's nomination on Monday. In a minority of eight members to 10, all its Democrats will vote against him and must pick up one Republican vote to quash his UN hopes.

All eyes are on the moderate Republican from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, who has indicated that he is under pressure from his constituents to vote against Mr Bolton, a darling of conservatives in Washington. Senator Chafee's aides said yesterday that he remained undecided on what to do. <snip>

Among those accusing Mr Bolton is Carl Ford, a former chief at the department's bureau of intelligence. He is expected to tell the committee that Mr Bolton distorted intelligence gathered on Iraq's weapons programmes and other matters to make it fit the administration's goals.

Senators will also hear allegations made by another State Department official, Christian Westermann, that Mr Bolton ignored his advice that testimony he was about to make to Congress two years ago warning that Cuba was developing biological weapons went beyond available evidence. <snip>

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=627675

He always rewards those who helped him lie his way into Iraq.